[FrankJ]

Typically remote IO have very little if any user logic programmed into them. What have is node address (IP address if TCIP), who can write to them, that kind of stuff. I/O health is already there is some form. In industrial equipment, monitoring the health of your IO is routine.

Rockwell (IE Allen Bradley) is a strategic sponsor. If they are donating the field hardware and they view it as an type of showcase, it will not be low end stuff. Not that Rockwell has a lot of low end stuff to begin with...

If I were FIRST person responsible for the field design, I standardized as much of the back end as possible from year to year. Different sensors for scoring is really a small thing. Scoring logic & different screens for the panelviews is all programming.